Toward Quality-Centered Design of Groupware Architectures

  • Authors:
  • James Wu;T. C. Graham

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada K7L 3N6;School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada K7L 3N6

  • Venue:
  • Engineering Interactive Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Challenges in designing effective groupware include technical issues associated with concurrent and distributed work and social issues associated with supporting group activities. To address some of these problems, we have developed a quality-centere d architectural design framework that links requirements analysis to architectural design decisions for groupware systems. The framework supports reasoned architectural design choices that are used to tailor software architecture to the unique quality and functional requirements of the software being developed. The framework has been applied to the development of the Software Design Board, a tool for collaborative software engineering.